Blog 438
My
starting point this week was the palette that I had created from squares last
week. I decided that the lightest square was the best one to get me going and I
put it in the middle of the release paper (from the Bondaweb). I started to
overlap and stagger the squares but they quickly started to go awry so I drew
vertical lines on the paper as a guideline to help with the positioning. The
squares are 2” so I drew the lines 1 ½” apart to accommodate the over-lap.
I
continued to blend and move the colours upwards, moving from yellow into dark
reds, light to dark. I also noted that there was a collection of blues so I
worked separately to develop these. (Sorry about the blurred images!)
After
working a bit on the blues and yellow/reds separately, I combined them with the
general aim of avoiding any strong lines where one colour moved into another.
Completed
picture
Combined
colours
And then
I set about developing the colourwash, overlapping the edges of the squares as
I progressed. You will notice that I have staggered the squares vertically. And
hopefully you will see that the wavy edges of the squares help to blend the
colours more easily.
Development
Here is
the completed colourwash still on the release paper where it cooled down
thoroughly before I attempted to remove it from the paper.
Bali’s
and Batiks are my preferred fabrics because of their intense colour and because
they are less likely to fray due to them being tightly woven. But I also have a
collection of Heidi Stoll-Weber dyed fabrics and I tried to incorporate these
in the design. They were rejected resoundingly because they were dull and
allowed for little movement of colour.
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